I just finished reading The Help. I saw it in the bookstore and it sounded interesting, then my neighbor loaned her copy to me. I feel like I'm jumping on the bandwagon because after I started reading it I found out that it's going to be a movie. The same with The Hunger Games. A friend recommended it, I finished it, then found out the movie comes out this fall. Although I'm not sure how they will make that one into a movie. Oh well- the book is always better.

So I finished this book, and all I can think is, "what would I have done?" It's set in the 60s, during the Civil Rights Movement, and I can't help but wonder if I would have been brave enough to stand up and say that it doesn't matter what color someone is, they should be treated equal. My mom was in college at this time and she said she went to protests and rallies in support of equal rights. Although she did go to college around Chicago, so it was more acceptable to do so than in the book, which was set in Mississippi. But what about living in the south at the time? Would you have gone against the flow or just accepted that that was the way things were?